I attended the last meeting of the Welsh Information Literacy Project in Wrexham last Thursday, 26th March. The Project is coming to an end after five years of productive work. During this time it has been funded by Cymal, the Welsh agency supporting libraries and museums. Thanks to Cymal funding, it has been one of […]
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This recent Herald newspaper article Great internet age divide is a myth by Andrew Denholm brought a knowing smile to my lips. The article was about Dr Dan Russell a senior research scientist for internet search company Google, who was ‘visiting Scotland to deliver a lecture in the importance of digital literacy at Strathclyde University, Glasgow’. He
This is a piece of work that I was involved in earlier this year. Europe Direct Aberdeen held workshops with a Kirkhill Primary School on Safer Internet Day in February. These workshops informed the creation of the following booklet that is aimed at children, parents and those who work with children and young people. The booklet offers
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An item about ‘Personal learning networks‘ in LinkedIn caught my eye this morning, I followed up and it took me to the IRISS blog about using social media for workplace knowledge sharing and learning and a blog posting by Ian Watson called Just do it! Social media in the workplace Over the last couple of
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Catching up on some email alerts that I thought would be of interest to the CoP and articles that I need to add to my to read pile. ALISS AGM 2014: Developing Digital Literacies for a Digital World papers now accessible. Reflecting on Digital Scholarship competencies – Dr Charles Inskip reports on the Rilads Project which has
Good to see Information literacy is for life, not just for a good degree by Dr Charles Inskip a lecturer at UCL’s Department of Information Studies and a member of CILIP’s Information Literacy Project Board. In addition to the information on the web page there is a literature review which includes work by John Crawford and I. Charles would
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In the Weekly News from CILIP, 22 May 2014 there was an item and link to ‘Social learning at work’. What caught my eye was that I had missed Learning at Work Week which was last week Monday 19 May. The other was “Natasha and Jacqueline blog about how important information literacy is to empowering learning and development
Having recently attended my first meeting of the Scottish Information Literacy – Community of Practice, I was asked to prepare a short post for the blog. I currently work for a land-based HEI as a campus librarian; but also have experience of working in public, school, schools library services and FE libraries. At the moment
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As a new member of the Community of Practice, Christine invited me to share my reasons for joining the group and any IL activities I’m involved in. I work at Scottish Borders Campus in Galahsiels which is a shared Campus between Heriot-Watt University and Borders College. Although I’m on the payroll of the University the
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Further to John’s blog,, I recently (Wednesday 7th May) sent the e-mail below to the central enquiries unit of the Scottish Government http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Contacts Can I please encourage others to place similar enquiries: I am most concerned that the success we have achieved by getting Information Literacy in the RSE report will not translate into Government action
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